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THE
EPISTL1
DEDICATORII.
are affiiTed
and
humbled
dare
not
appropriate
them
to
themfelues; becaufe they
are
deliuered
indefinitly
to
all,
without
all
caution
or any condition,
where-
by they might bee reftrained rather to them than
a-
ny other
in
whom
finne
yet
liueth and raigneth.
Wherein
they
refemble
negligent
Phyfitions,
who
hauing
made
good
medicine
for
a ficke
man, doe
nor
give
it
vnto him,
but
caft
it
carer
fly
into
force
corner,
whither
the
ficke
patient
in
refpeä
of
his
faintneffe
and
weakeneffe
is
likely
neuer
ro
come
:
which being
found
and
greedilie
drunken
vp
by
thofe who
haue no need
of
it,
in Bead
of
doing
them good doth
turne to their bane and
vrter de-
firulion.
Laftly, I
haue
defired
to glue
folid
and
fubf}antiall
confolations, which
are
firmely
groun-
ded
upon Gods
vndoubted truth,
and
fuch
infallible
reafons
as
cannot
bee
gainfàid; and
haue withall
deliuered
the
conditionr,vpon
which they
are
to bee
receiued, and
the vndoubted
fignes
and
markes
of
thofe,
to
whom
of
right they appertaine
3
to
the
end
that
thole who
find there
things
in
themfelues, may
not
doubt to
apply
them
to
their
wounded"
confci
ences,
whereby they
may
bee
foundly
cured
and
throughly
comforted;
and that
thofe
who
find
no
fuck
condition
obferued
by
them, nor
any
Each
fìgne
or
marke
in
them,.
may
bee,debarred
from
participa-
ting
of
there:
confolations, which would nourifh in
them
fecuritie
"and
prefumption; and
contrariwífe
examining
themfelues
according to
thefe rules,
and
finding no correfpondencie betweene
,themfelues
and them,
may
hereby
bee
awakened
out oftheir
le-
thargic of
fecuritie,
and attaining
vnto
a
fight
and
fetIfe
of
their
miferable
eflate
may neuer
bee
atref'r,
till
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